Nope. This is the problem: my response is sorrow, as it says at the beginning. My sorrow is met with unthinking cynicism. I hope that now changes, and a greater spirit of respect and curiosity emerges. Facts exist. Most people don’t want to know.

There is a logic behind your words, unfortunately being fair and nice to illegal aliens is not going to solve the root problem in a reasonable amount of time. There is a thing called national culture and another called borders: bother have been around since a long time and much blood has been spilt to affirm and sustain them. WHAT FOR?

There are a number of huge, intractable, violent wars on the margins of Europe. Many were started, fueled or armed by Britain. The result is that millions want to escape. This is pretty much how it was in 1939, when, to our nation’s eternal pride, we rescued refugees, tackled nationalism, and helped to build a better world by (in case you didn’t know) proposing and the starting the EU.

It’s equally to our nation’s eternal shame that we’re undoing all that good work and turning out back on the needy. And why? Because we feel the pain of austerity WE voted for, and are blaming the pain on other countries.